Quotes by Marianne Williamson

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves that is true.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, Ive come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our souls growth.

Trust is very hard if you dont know what youre trusting.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

When it comes to politics today, the devils not in the details; the devils in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

It doesnt take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a womans toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Relationships are eternal. The separation is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.